Referat "What songs can be used for" został wygłoszony na Komisji Przedmiotów Humanistycznych w ZSR w Bratoszewicach. Jest prób± usystematyzowania ćwiczeń, które mog± być wykorzystywane w trakcie pracy z tekstem piosenek w języku obcym. Gotowe ćwiczenia już wkrótce. What can songs be used for?Songs can be an useful basis and supplementary material for: - Listening development
- gap - filling:
- random words blaked out
- Specific vocabulary blanked out
- Specific grammar blanked out
- The word given to the students before being out
- correction:
- extra words are to be crossed out
- wrong forms of verbs are to be found
- wrong word order in the songs lines is to be arranged propely
- jumbled liones (students put them in the right order)
- match halves of the sentence (before and during)
- put pictures in the right order as they occur in the song
- title matching
- finding in the tape script the pieces that are being listened to
- Reading development
- Answering comprehension questions
- Supplementary reading material for the introduction of topic
- To read and choose the proper summary from the given different version
- Speaking development
- Describing the picture a student has drawn to the song
- Telling the story of the song
- Paraphrasing the sayings, cliches, proverbs logos from the song
- To comment on what the song is about
- To discuss the different versions of the songs summaries
- Writing
- Writing the questions and answers to the song
- Writing the story or the summary of the song
- Writing a a dilaogue in pairs using the song titles
- Writing articles about singers, songs or letters to singers
- Writing a new version of the song
- Vocabulary extension
- To teach new words
- Students are given words which occur in the song and are asked to circle any word they don't understand
- Explain the new words using dictionaries
- Writing word families, synonyms or antonyms
- To consolidate and check vocabulary
- Word games or puzzles
- Picture compoasition
- Organizing words into 'sets'
- Filling in the charts, tables
- Making sentences with the new words
- Pronunciation practice
- Repetitions of songs lyrics, particular words, with focusing on shorts forms, weak forms, stress, rhty,
- Grammar practice
- To teach new grammatican structures and review
- Identifying grammatical categories
- Finding common mistakes such as singular and plural agrement, verb tenses, ommitted and incorrect prepositions
- Folling the gaps with the proper form of the verb
- Writing substitution exercises using examples form the song
Another problem is to choose songs ineteresting for students and deciding what can be learnt and taught from them.
Soon I will publish some activities and exercises I use while working with the song during my lessons. |
